Humble Themselves Quotes

#1. If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. -2nd Chronicles 7:14

Anonymous

#2. There is something so powerful about a person who in one moment can be confident enough to confront a client about a sensitive personal issue, and then in the next moment humble themselves and take a position of servitude. It's the paradoxical nature of it all that makes it work.

Patrick Lencioni

#3. Faultfinders will not be able to humble themselves to repent of their own sins because they are too busy looking at the sins of others.

Greg Gordon

#4. If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land (2 Chronicles 7:14).

Peter Marshall

#5. If men come unto me, I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them.

Ezra Taft Benson

#6. When he said they needed to humble themselves and listen to God's commands and obey them, he was not posturing. He wanted to impart this vision of God and was saying that one must utterly trust God now and must know that hearing him is indeed all that matters.

Eric Metaxas

#7. It's not 'those who help themselves' whom God helps; it's those who humble themselves.

C.J. Mahaney

#8. 11 For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.

Anonymous

#9. A proud person is so busy looking down on others they cannot humble themselves to look up at God.

LeCrae

#10. The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.

John Stott

#11. Some never get started on their destiny course because they cannot humble themselves to learn, grow, and change.

Casey Treat

#12. They who humble themselves before knowledge of any kind generally end up the wiser and as voices with something meaningful to say.

Haki R. Madhubuti

#13. 2CH7.14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Anonymous

#14. If we see a problem in our nation we must first look at our churches. He really does want His people who are called by His name to humble themselves, pray, seek His face and turn from their individual wicked ways. This always turns a nation around.

Dean Braxton

#15. The children of our Lord walk gladly in his ways; they have confidence in him, and so when they fall, they rise again; and if, instead of stopping to grumble about the stone they have tripped over, they humble themselves at their fall, this helps them to advance with great strides in his love.

Vincent De Paul

#16. Standing alone scares alot of people it means they have to be themselves and more often than not they haven't the slightest clue who they've been all this time & that's why people stay the same because it's a frightening choice to step away from the crowd.

Nikki Rowe

#17. Pride is a human nature and it's good for people to be proud of themselves, achievements, etc. but too much of anything is not healthy. Humble is pride exhibited through humility, so be humble and prideful about being humble.

Uzoma Nnadi

#18. While you are so busy trying to make yourself humble,
many are persistently and quietly promoting themselves.

Toba Beta

#19. Rap comes from the humble beginnings of rebelling against the status quo. Now, rappers have become the status quo themselves. You can't rebel against the Queen and then become the Queen yourself. I attribute much of the blame to testosterone-male dominance and patriarchy.

Chuck D

#20. They that know God will be humble. They that know themselves cannot be proud.

John Flavel

#21. Their humble dwellings were of their own rearing; it was they themselves who had broken in their little fields; from time immemorial, far beyond the reach of history, had they possessed their mountain holdings.

Hugh Miller

#22. A truly humble person knows that they are nothing in themselves but they are everything in Christ.

Joyce Meyer

#23. People do not just buy products. They buy better versions of themselves. And the packages in which they want the products to be delivered must come from humble and approachable brands. People have no patience for fluff.

Cendrine Marrouat

#24. Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful. They tend to brighten all around them. They make others feel better about themselves. They tend to be more humble, more joyful, more likable.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#25. Almost all religions from Buddhism to Islam feature either a humble prophet or a prince who comes to identify with the poor, but what is this if not populism? It is hardly a surprise if religions choose to address themselves first to the majority who are poor and bewildered and uneducated.

Christopher Hitchens

#26. Krishna exalts those who are humble and humbles those who exalt themselves.

Radhanath Swami

#27. Be humble and you will remain entire. The sages do not display themselves, therefore they shine. They do not approve themselves, therefore they are noted. They do not praise themselves, therefore they have merit. They do not glory in themselves, therefore they excel.

Laozi

#28. There are two things that are suited to humble the souls of men, and they are, first, a due consideration of God, and then of themselves - of God, in His greatness, glory, holiness, power, majesty, and authority; of ourselves, in our mean, abject, and sinful condition.

John Owen

#29. The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves humble dignity of bearing.

Ellen G. White

#30. Mindy had explained that a lot of things had ghosts, not just people. Animals, machines, even things as vast as a paved-over forest or as humble as the smell of good cooking could leave traces of themselves behind. The world was haunted by the past.

Scott Westerfeld

#31. If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

John Maynard Keynes

#32. We decided that humility was defined not by self-deprecating behavior or attitudes but by the esteem with which you regard others ... Generally, you can be humble only if you feel really good about yourself - and you want to help those around you feel really good about themselves, too.

Clayton Christensen

#33. The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.

Andrew Jackson

#34. In a thousand apparently humble ways men busy themselves to make some right take the place of some wrong,
if it is only to make abetter paste blacking,
and they are themselves so much the better morally for it.

Henry David Thoreau

#35. A person who is obsessed with Jesus knows that the sin of pride is always a battle. Obsessed people know that you can never be 'humble enough,' and so they seek to make themselves less known and Christ more known [Matthew 5:16].

Francis Chan

#36. The stories I respect most aren't those with the rich, dense prose, but those which achieve a rich, deep effect with simple little nothing-sentences, lines I won't possibly remember, because they simply functioned, didn't draw attention to themselves, were properly humble.

Stephen Graham Jones

#37. There is something, however humble, which can properly be called skill among those who recognise themselves as economists.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#38. Normally, I've found in my life that the louder you speak, probably, the less of a fighter you are. All the fighters I've had a chance and the honor to serve with didn't pat themselves on the back, were pretty humble men and women.

David Dewhurst

#39. The bravest and most noble are not those who take up arms, but those who are decent despite everything; who improve what it is in their power to improve, but do not imagine themselves to be saviours. In their humble struggle is true heroism.

Theodore Dalrymple

#40. This book is a labor of love. It is dedicated to people who have cried themselves to sleep because they were 'different'. It is also a celebration of the 'inner outcast' in all of us, and a humble attempt to inspire tolerance, understanding, and acceptance. the intro from the author

Jodee Blanco